CSS351: Prisons and Correction of Offenders

This is a 3 unit one-semester course. It will be available for you to take as a core module of the Criminology and Security Studies programme. This course is meant for the 300 level degree students seeking to understand correctional issues in the field of criminology. This course consists of 22 units, encompassing the following key units: the meaning of prison; the evolution of prison in Nigeria; Process of admission into the prison; warrant as an important document in the prison; Gate lodge as the first port of call in the prison; all the agencies of the criminal justice system and their roles in the administration of criminal justice; treatment of offenders; types of prison inmates; adjudication of prisoners; execution of condemned prisoners; correctional enhancement programme; rehabilitation of inmates; tension reduction measures;
relevant theories and correctional problems.